An unnamed reader points out a story at mtier Week which begins: "Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the footing behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google. Since Google introduced its own Web browser, Chrome, the prospect that Google may not re-up the three-year convention set to expire in 2011 has Mozilla being how other search partnerships and ways to breed revenue, Baker said. 'There are presumably other search engines that would pay us more money,' Baker says. Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN, Google's two main search rivals, come to mind, but Baker says smaller search engines wouldn't be discounted should such a stage arise. One player Baker won't classify 'offered a blank check to replace Google,' she says. Set to launch on certain Nokia phones in late spring, Fennec is the first Mozilla browser optimized for mobile platforms. If it gains traction with enough handset makers and mobile users, Fennec could symbolize another way to draw revenue from a partnering search engine."

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